On Mon 07 Oct 2019 at 14:45:29 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 09:17:21PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:54:17PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > I don't agree that responding to a troll will lead to a beneficial > > > outcome. > > > > You're entitled to your option, of course. > > For context, the most recent message from that account started out with: > > "I posted to publicly state that Debian developers are assholes, but > now I see that Debian users are assholes too (just like religious cult > of Theo de Raadt which we know as OpenBSD)." > > I think most people would agree that's a troll account which isn't going to > lead to any meaningful engagement. It's probably reasonable to assume that > any issues raised by the troll account were selected to cause conflict, not > to request assistance for a real problem in need of a solution.
If that had been in a submitted bug report, it would been closed within seconds. > > Still, there were some valid points in that e-mail. > > We can certainly agree to disagree. About the points? Yes. About the tone? No. It is unacceptable on this list and does not deserve to be championed. -- Brian.